Driving in Circles [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
The Bush administration has announced that an eight-year-old, $2 billion federal program to create high-mileage gas vehicles was being scrapped and a new program -- focusing on hydrogen fuel-cells -- was being created. According to Jack Doyle, author of Taken for A Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution [3], this new fuel-efficiency initiative is more PR than progress.